TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Not to downplay developer happiness. The web development continuum has sound, safe, but stodgy on one side and shiny-obsession at the risk of unknown stability on the other.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 27, 2020

There is much debate as to whether Peter Drucker actually said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company in March 2000. Regardless, the quote is used extensively these days to emphasize the importance of how a company operates over the why. “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” .

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Via Codigo , a nonprofit organisation teaching high skilled web development and soft skills program at juvenile detention centers is pleased to announce it’s goals for 2019. Training highly- skilled web developers. Via Codigo’s mid-term plans are to expand their development training to new areas.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

When I hear the word ‘startup’, my mind immediately begins playing a reel of a bunch of twenty-something year old web developers, huddled together in a retro office somewhere in the SF Bay Area. Apart from having different ways of thinking about ‘growth’, startups seek financial investment differently than most small business operations.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) (No value judgments here, VCs were doing what the market rewarded them for, and their investors expected – maximum returns.) (And

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Fifty years later another Harvard professor, Clayton Christensen, developed his theory of disruptive innovation, which actually described how creative destruction worked.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation. MyUSA is working to solve these problems.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Paulina Cabrera, Operation Coordinator for Solar Winds and Latinitas Volunteer Paulina Cabrera Paulina Cabrera grew up in Arlington, TX, but had the wonderful experience of living in Neiva, Colombia from 1997 to 2000. She is currently an Operations Coordinator at Solar Winds and volunteers for Latinitas. Austin, this time?—?to

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It launched open API’s and created a platform whereby third-party developers could come build any app they wanted and Facebook didn’t even want (yet) to take any money from them to do so. Twitter seems to have become a bit allergic to third-party developers (or maybe vice-versa).

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption. In the early 2000’s, he launched several games, whose audience is over 30 million active users.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Develop a defined contribution solution. Develop the components necessary for becoming a health insurance concierge. For many, it’s been a struggle. If you’re an insurance professional….

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

Nobody likes to hear you say, “we can’t tell you anything we’re in stealth mode&# so develop some generic talking points that don’t give anything away when you’re asked what you do. I know because I did this in early 2000. Most app-to-app products are inter-operable, Apple isn’t.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 9, 2020

And these are indeed strange times, especially if you haven’t lived through 2000-2002 and 2007-2008 recessions and difficulty in finding money from banks and investors. A shocking example of operations affecting cash control. And profits from the sale of the product create cash for development of the next product.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. The second step involves obtaining a license to operate. The startup websites are now fully developed, and they are functioning properly. They went ahead to develop a leading casino. The first move involves identifying a software provider.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

percent in 2000 to 19.6 To date, North America has dominated the home health care global marketplace due mainly to a more sophisticated health care infrastructure and more resources committed to research and development. That list of key starting expenses will include: Business development. population. percent by 2030.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces (APIs), allowing any developer to access them. Like Nuance, AT&T has developed specific taxonomies for specific use cases, allowing its servers to anticipate the words and phrasing consumers are likely to speak in a particular context.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 18, 2013

This is a big deal because whether to pursue austerity policies is perhaps the most important decision facing most developed economy politicians right now. The 1970-2000 mantra that a simple focus on shareholder value was the best way for companies to generate success is a good example.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Since 2000, Intel has put out 29 microcode updates to their processors. You’d be invisible to all rootkit detection techniques that checks the operating system. Your operating system ensures security of updates by checking downloaded update packages against the signing key.) ” (Ironic but possible.).

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Benefits of Corporate Car Sharing Software To proficiently manage corporate car sharing and optimise operations, corporate car sharing software has been developed. Founded in 2000, by 2010, the company’s fleet already had 8,000 cars. Ask the program developer for an API key through which the integration process will occur.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2014

President and CEO of SurePayroll Michael Alter is responsible for the overall business model development, strategic planning and day-to-day operations for SurePayroll, a wholly owned subsidiary of Paychex®. Others Michael Alter outsourcing payroll service provider SurePayroll'

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. To that point, a well-run telesales operation will be super metrics-driven. In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. Macro Trend 2: Urbanization.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. Government and the American public. My company serves a purpose and promotes goodness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. Building billion-dollar businesses requires 7-10 years which means operating through at least one full economic cycle, if not two. You know what I’m talking about.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

John (04:23): Yeah, we had a 2000 page site that we did just that to 1400 pages and immediately lifted their results. So you could upload, let's say a manifesto or how you think and operate in the world and your values and philosophy on life and business or whatever for your industry. John (23:20): Nice. powered by

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017. He set up his first company when at 17 years old, and since then he has started multiple companies and also set up the European operations for many U.S. corporations.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Our work spans everything from technology strategy and needs analysis to systems development and ongoing maintenance. Add in mobile and analytics and you change the game for how businesses and public sector organizations operate. I didn’t want to be constrained by their rules and how they operated.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So we're seeing research and development move faster, right? Adding a virtual assistant to your team can help you focus on high value activities like business development to boost your bottom line work better. And they fit into four buckets, financial, operational, external change and strategic change. Those are big buckets.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

All manual operations. In early 2000, the diffusion of Personal Computers transformed the way users made decisions and the paradigm buyer/seller changed again. The MQL (Marketing Qualified Lead) is a prospect that somehow expressed interest in your company/product and it’s ready to interact with a human, often Sales Development Reps.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

The job changes from creating a “work of art” to operating a “cookie cutter.” But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. The ideal buyer is someone who has more skills and interest on the operational side of the business, and can scale it.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Developing a cohesive and impassioned team that is motivated to give their best effort means laying the groundwork and letting individual potential take root. My lessons in leadership took years to develop. I came to realize that my position wasn’t to oversee staff, but to develop leaders. They have to be grown intentionally.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

… (They were operating like) there’s an opportunity and there’s a market need. (So) While you’re) building the operating system … you will have a culture, it just won’t be the culture you want. They were just taking advantage of an opportunity and trying to create a market. Anand : Yeah.

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